Spycker – The Very Thing We Need (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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The Very Thing That We Need can be experienced as a temporary sonic journey, a drifting passage through layered soundscapes. Each track unfolds like a chapter in an inward-bound narrative, leaning into atmosphere over urgency, weaving layered rhythms and unconventional melodies.
The album opens with a soft glow: piano and guitar drifting together in a quiet nostalgia. From there, the grooves loop and simmer, steady but just out of reach, like something half-remembered. Moments of calm give way to darker turns, sliding gently into a dreamlike haze that moves between the familiar and the uncanny.

In According To One, piano and guitar drift together in quiet conversation, conjuring a sense of ease, like looking back on something you never quite left behind.
From there, sink deeper into the slow-burning pulse of Induce the Peasants. Its steady groove is hypnotic and unhurried, perfect for losing track of time and letting the present dissolve.
With Santi Asoke, the mood lightens. Breezy and effortless, it carries you somewhere warm and weightless, a place where nothing is expected, and everything just is.
Things shift with Of Money Use. Here, the familiar starts to slip away and you’re left in a vivid, uncertain dreamscape where imagination takes the lead.
Finally, Asoke Hierarchy pulls it all back together. It’s a subtle revival: steady and composed, like standing up again after a long, introspective drift.

Hablamos Muertos – The Ship Is Sinking (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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Hablamos Muertos is the work of Lisbon based artist José Trujillo.

Jose has been producing solo work since 2017, working with personal experiences filtered through instrumental & psychedelic music

Themes, process, and influences in relation to ‘The Ship Is Sinking’

“The Ship Is Sinking is an album about fragility, transformation, and the echoes of lost spaces. Inspired by Lev Tolstoy’s “What Men Live By?”, the album is structured as a sonic shipwreck, where every piece reflects the disintegration and reconstruction of something that is slowly sinking.

The music is both simple and complex, chaotic and sublime, structured yet dispersed. I started by wanting to create something between Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, and Suzanne Ciani, embracing the contrast between noise and harmony, whispers and screams, ocean waves and deep silence.”

Technical Process & Gear Used

● Moog Mother 32 – A key element in shaping the textures.
● Minimoog (digital version) – Bringing a warm analog depth.
● Fugue Machine – Adding a sense of repetition and movement.
● Suzuki Precision Bass (1978) – Processed through expression pedals, creating fluid and unpredictable harmonics.

Each track on the album represents a stage in the descent:

Mikhail – A spectral opening where melody dissolves into emptiness.
Wreckage – The reconstruction through fragmented noise.
Deep Waters – A hypnotic descent into the abyss, where sound becomes liquid.
Ectoplasma – The lingering presence of what is lost, vibrating in a liminal space.

credits

released March 21, 2025

This is the second album I have worked on with Raúl Espinoza Garza, who handled recording and mastering. Our first collaboration was Rhetorical Figures (2019). Raúl is not just a great sound engineer—he is a friend with an incredible musical taste, someone with whom I can have deep and fascinating conversations about music and philosophy.

The album cover was designed by Anastasiia Parshina, a painter and art professor, andmy wife. She has collaborated with me on several projects, including the cover for Mechanik Mushrooms. Her work bridges visual art and sound, making her a key artistic collaborator.

José Trujillo, Lisbon, 2025

Expedient Self – Speaker EP (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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SubCastCo is super buzzed to welcome Expedient Self to our aquatic vessel.

I first heard this work on a weekend where for some universally signposted reason I encountered three albums by solo artists working the fertile field of guitar loops. Pleasingly, they were all very different.

‘Speaker’ is a wonderful, idiosyncratic and original take on the loop strategy.

Expedient Self is Brighton, UK based artist Simon Chandler. Active since 2019 releasing 2 previous EP’s and a single.

The EP ‘Chairs’ was reviewed in The Wire.

“Chairs

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Expedient Self is a solo electric guitar project created by Brighton’s Simon Chandler. He uses looped figures to create an array of different sounds, which he piles up in ways that resemble Frippertronics NOT ONE WHIT. Even the quieter pieces tend toward dissonance in a way that most such music does not, and the more active passages can be almost (fr)antic (sic).
Chandler has a great sense of how to assemble discordant elements into a weirdly coherent whole, creating a very heavy ambience that is not ambient at all.”

Thanksgiver – Botany Bay (Submarine Broadcasting Company)

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A bit of a first here on the Sub.

Our new release is in fact a re-release. ‘Thanksgiver’ by Botany Bay is a beautiful album by Schall und Stille artist Stephan Kleinhert whose albums Biike and The Drunken Fisherman were rightfully well received here.

Thanksgiver is a swampy reverb heavy minimalist elegy that leads with the 20 minute Winter Wolfpack Serenade. To-die-for vocals by Stefanie Mühr and a growing orchestra of bluesy angst. Like ECM meets Daniel Lanois recording Maria Muldaur, it’s simply gorgeous.

This is a stunningly produced work that deserves to find a bigger audience. Originally self released in 2018, SubCastCo is happy to bring this work to our talented & erudite listeners.

At the time of the initial release Stephan had the album pressed to vinyl. We would be super happy if we could encourage our listeners to head over to the Botany Bay BC page and make a purchase. It’s an artistically exceptionally made release with well thought through spot-UV over matt black card with inserts. A perfect clean sounding press for your audiophile pleasure guaranteed.

Hit up Botany Bay here – botanybay.bandcamp.com/album/thanksgiver

So, get on this and tell your friends. It’s absolutely wonderful.

For the Beauty, as the tag line says…..

A(GoB)

credits

released August 16, 2024

Stephan Kleinert
keyboards, bass, electric and acoustic guitars, melodica, windsynth, ocarina, drums, percussion, programming

Stefanie Mühr
vocals

with

Andrei Boulgakov
electric guitars

Mike Compton
oboe

Martin Giese
acoustic guitars

Ernst Nellessen
saxophones, clarinet

Ivan Shevchuk
acoustic guitars

Tobias Stutz
cello

Susanne Wellmann
french horn, flute

Recorded at Suntrap, Bad Honnef
April 2017 – February 2018

Produced by Stephan Kleinert

Artwork by Christiane Kleinert

Design by Yannick Floßdorf

Additional field recording on “Serenade”
by speedygonzo, cc-by

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